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No. 253,129. Patented Jan. 31','188Z.

' WITNESSES QINVENTOR I I I .WGZZMM i9 ATTORNEYS.

NITED' STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT W. TEESE, OF PARKERS LANDING, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,129, dated January 31, 1882.

Application filed October 5, 1881. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. TEESE, of Parkers Landing, in the county of Armstrong and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Safe, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to protect the lock of a safe from being picked or blown open.

The invention consists in a safe having an open-bottom compartment at its key-hole. end; and it also consists -in the combination, with a compartment having a hinged cover, of an open bottom compartment at the key-hole of the said compartment.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figurel isaperspective view ofmyimproved safe. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same.

The box A, which is to be made of iron, steel, or some othersuitable metal about threefourths to one inch in thickness, is bolted to the wall of a room by means of the screw-bolts B, the nuts 0 being on the inside of the box, so that this box cannot be removed without opening it to unscrew the nuts 0. The box has a hinged or pivoted cover or door, D, in its upper side, the hinges or pivots of this door being at one end of the box, the swinging end of this door reaching to a transverse partition, E, which forms a compartment, F, large enough to receive a persons hand at that end of the box opposite to the one at which the cover or door D is hinged or pivoted. The compartment F is closed on top and open below. The door or cover D is provided on its upper side with a knob, H, and on its under side with a staple, J, fitting in a lock, K, attached to the partition E on the side toward that part of the box closed by the cover or door D, and forming the compartment L for receiving the valuables. The partition E is provided with a key-hole, M, through which the key N is passed into the lock, the body of the key projecting into the compartment F, as shown.

Au alarm apparatus, P, either mechanical or electrical, is contained in the compartment L, and is connected by a wire, 0, with the door or cover D, so that the alarm will be sounded when the cover or door is opened.

The compartment F must only be of suiticient size to admit the hand, but no larger..

The hand is passed into the compartment F, the key a is inserted in the keyhole, and the door or cover D is unlocked, and the valuables are placed into the compartment L, the alarm P is adjusted, and the door D is closed and looked, upon which the key a is withdrawn.

The lock K cannot be picked, as the compartment F is too small to admit tools, and a person cannot see the look from the compartment F even if it would be possible to pass the tools into the compartment F. The lock cannot be blown open, as no explosives can be introduced unless a hole is drilled through the cover or door D. The lock can be of any desired construction, and the alarm apparatus 1? can be dispensed with,if desired. in all cases the top of the compartment F must be closed, the bottom open, and the lock K must be at the upper edge of the partition E.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. An improved safe having an open-bottom compartment at its key-hole end adapted to cover the key-hole, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a safe, the combination, with the box A, of the cover or door D and the partition E, forming a compartment, F, having its opening in that side of the box opposite the one in which the door or cover D is placed, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ROBERT W. TEESE.

Witnesses:

W. W. S. GEPHART, J. M. COOPER. 

